Other council members expressed regret that Haynes felt she could not continue as committee chair and said her experience would be missed.
"Liz expressed that she had been personally hurt by those on the [Student Affairs Committee] and I think, for one, that though I may have disagreed with her in some situations, I feel very badly that she had such a bad experience this year," Freeman said. "Nobody was trying to hurt anybody."
Garance R. Franke-Ruta '96-'97, a member of PUCC who ran for Student Affairs Committee chair this semester, said she regretted the loss of Haynes as chair and lamented the personal nature of attacks against her.
"I do believe there have been a number of occasions that political differences have devolved to personal ones one-mail," Franke-Ruta said. "This has occurred a number of times this year and is clearly a broader problem.
"There were unfortunate personality clashes and people on all sides behaved in a fashion that was inappropriate," she added.
Franke-Ruta said she wished Haynes success on the Campus Life Committee and hoped she would continue to lend her expertise in dealing with the administration to whoever becomes the new chair of Student Affairs. As well, she said she had high hopes for the committee's future.
"I think there remains a large body of people on the council determined to make the experiment with new ways to take action a success," Franke-Ruta said. "I hope we can bring these different opinions into a successful working relationship."
Council President Robert M. Hyman '98-'97 said he agreed that the council will continue to make historic strides this year.
"In the first four weeks we've been considering things we've never seen before on the council," Hyman said. "We have a bold new agenda as a committee and as a council. I'm sorry she didn't want to continue in her post, but I am sure the council will continue to bring the diversity of talent on the council together."
Other council members were not so optimistic that the conflicts on the council could be reconciled.
Campus Life Committee Co-Chair Rudd W. Coffey '97 said he saw a common vision among council members to make the council an effective student government but a great division about how that goal should be achieved.
"There is a growing divergence on how to achieve this vision--to attack the administration from the outside or attack it from the inside," Coffey said. "The best method is to do both, but that's not always possible.